Getting high...

It's a mess of a neg but remember I was telling you about climbing up the outside of a 300 foot chimney, with no safety harness or hard hat?  Well, I dug out this shot from that box of old negatives I found recently. One of the workmen, hamming it up on the rim of the chimney with nothing between him and the ground but 300 feet of fresh air! Ah, simpler times!

Off to Croxteth Hall for tomorrow's Wedding, and really looking forward to revisiting a venue I've not worked at for absolutely ages. What's fun about it is that it's in the middle of a park, so on a sunny day it'll be full of people out enjoying themselves. Don't bet on me ending up with 30 more folk than I should have in the big group shot!

Anyway, back to the scanner. I just can't keep my hands off these old negatives. What a buzz....

The end of an era...

Ooh, now that's what you call a birthday present! I've been booked to shoot a Wedding on my birthday this year, and just happened to be passing the venue yesterday. Check it out! Croxteth Hall, in Liverpool. My very own Dowton Abbey! Can't wait to get shooting!

Sad to hear about Kodak's continuing demise. I've seen all manner of magazine, newspaper and retailer go out of business in the digital age, but to know that it's 'got' Kodak too is really rather frightening. The Kodak moment is over and, like Croxteth Hall, the old way of photography has passed into a bygone era....